Mac Forum / Country Specific / UK Mac Group / November 2006

Anyone seen this?
http://www.crypticide.com/dropsafe/articles/media/post20060308091742.html
I've seen similar - a popup window that looks like an error message - but
this looks a little more detailed and opens actual system dialogs.

I am using istat pro and I have a service running called windowserver -
anyone know what this is  ?
David

My neighbour has a iMac Bondi blue tray loading running OS8.6.
Regularly they receive from their PC friends M$ Word .doc files (probably
from a recent version of Windows) which they are unable to open. Without
upgrading the OS is there any way in which they can read these files? ...

Gah.
Had a Packard Bell (I know) enclosure containing a Seagate 400GB drive. This
was keenly priced at Purple World at the time. I was using this for backups
of stuff that was on other drives but because it was so big, it kind of, er,

This hasn't come up for a while - what do we we like at the moment for
scanning negatives? Looking for a home scanner, probably around the
£100 mark (although somewhat flexible).
Cheers ... Mark

I found this:
<http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20060301112336384&lsrc=osxh>
I haven't tested it yet, but I'm sure people have asked about booting iG5
from USB before. I intend to test this sometime after I clone this wonky disk

<http://web.mac.com/nigeleastmond/iWeb/Right%20brain/Updates/48DDBDD1-227
F-4761-BD37-4D11E9548BE1.html>
Nige is the guy in the black t-shirt playing the sunburst Strat on the
left. Woody is the largely obscured bassist and the rightmost of those

When I choose an album or a playlist and go for 'shuffle', my Macmini
almost never plays all the songs.
Is that a known bug in the new iTunes?
It worked perfect some time ago.

Is anyone able to recommend some educational software suitable for three
or four year old children?
My daughter has pretty much exhausted the CBeebies website.
Thanks,

Is there some quick and easy way to fake a short iChat (or some other
instant messaging thing) conversation? I just need it for educational
purposes - a few lines of chat, in a window.
Daniele

Argh!
I taught A-level Maths years ago, but am unable to help my daughter with
the 'tools' we're allowed to use:
Given a rectangle with a perimiter of 1000m, prove that the maximum area

Hi all, - any ebay experts out there ?
I am selling a few items this week including a PSP (not doing so good)
and a PDA. It is the PDA that is weird - the highest bidder is called
"bidder2" and when you click on the bidder it brings up a weird set of

Morning all
Don't know if this should be in the adverts group or here....Just
noticed Argos are doing the 512MB Shuffle for £24.50. I've had my 1GB
one for just over a year and am still really pleased with it.

Every now and then, but with increasing frequency, I find the two
Connect to Server menu items greyed out, and only quitting MacSoup and
restarting it seems to get them back.
Anyone know why and what might fix it?

Can you use Eclipse to develop Palm applications?
Googling implies you can [1], but does it need a bunch of dodgy hacks (to
get it working on OSX or to get it working at all) or does it Just Work?
    -z-